And to be fair, the title, "Reforming the Commission", is straightforward enough.Even the chapter headings make recognisable sense.
The fired-up opener 'Overglazed' sounds like the music of U2 might if it were made by recognisable human beings.
The contrade are made instantly recognisable by their individual, brilliant colours – but the Sienese flag itself is austerely black and white.
When she returned in 1964 as Hilda Ogden, after a cull of other characters by Granada TV, she carved out a role that made her recognisable across Britain, alongside Bernard Youens who played Stan.
And, although Brian Lapping and Norma Percy's remarkable documentaries on post-cold war conflicts have filled the journalistic gap, we have lost the great opportunity provided by Granada's political drama-documentaries to experience how history is made by recognisable, angry, vulnerable human beings behind closed doors.
An otherwise recognisable binding surface to a CBM may thus turn into a non-recognisable one, while making it recognisable to another CBM.
During a lengthy webchat hosted by Florence-based newspaper La Nazione, he expressed a desire to "create a recognisable idea of who we are, a 'Fiorentina passport' that will make us recognisable anywhere".
Again, the effect is to bring the petty corruptions, pieties and selfishness of an urban society to life and make it recognisable, telescoping a gap of nearly 2,000 years to shocking immediacy.
In the late 1930s, Escher also became obsessed by the "regular division of the plane", in which shapes (often fish, lizards or birds) are tiled across a flat plane in such a way that the spaces between them make other, recognisable shapes.
